Just so...so bad

Crappy film

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

A Major Disappointment

I didn't find any part of this series slow. Its builds perfectly. Its frightening, sadistic, horrible and real. Just incredible.

I had mixed feelings about Hidden as I was watching it because at times it seemed quite slow and wandered off the story. As I watched the last few episodes I realised that the reason for this was that they were showing some of the consequences of the crimes as well as telling the 'core' story. If you prefer 45 or 90 minute dramas where everything is cut and dried at the end you might not like this. Watch it anyway, it is worth the effort.There were many good performances but for me the most compelling was from Elodie Wilton who played Nia. Her silence and stillness were much more disturbing than any amount of dramatic action. She reminded me of the young boy Swann Nambotin who played Victor in in the original French version of The Returned. (yes, I did have to look his name up.)

The story could have been told in 90 minutes rather than 8 hours. It had many long, long, long pauses in dialog and many scenes so dark that the actions were impossible to discern. I understand that some cinematographers and directors use low light but that is just a crappy excuse to save money on set decoration.

The best bit for me, as a linguist, was the fact that some of it was in Welsh (not that I know any) and it reminded me a bit of the Scandi series it was emulating. However it went on for far too many episodes. After about half way it could have been wound up quickly at any point. I lost track and interest in the council estate plot, which could have been left out in my opinion. There was also recourse to daft police incompetence to help protract matters.